Bodycam Videos Show Mom Begging ‘Please Don’t Shoot’ as Cops Shoot Son During Mental Health Crisis
Bodycam Videos Show Mom Begging ‘Please Don’t Shoot’ as Cops Shoot Son During Mental Health Crisis
New footage shows the deadly police response to a young man in the midst of a mental health crisis.
"Is he bipolar schizo?"
What a cunt of a human being. He used a child-like level of insulting language, escalated at evey situation, tazed needlessly and without warning, and made zero attempts to do anything but bark orders to a person who is CLEARLY in a distressed mental state and unable to comply.
As bad as it is, situations like these make me do a little cheer in my head every time I see an article where a police officer dies.
They kill so many people compared to every other civilized nation, hopefully they die at increased rates as well. It's only fair, right?
I admit I feel guilty to feel that way, but it's the result of seeing the police betray the public at every turn. Crushing protests, shooting people running away, beating people senseless for seemingly nothing, slamming a man to the pavement walking to work which broke his skull and left him with life long brain damage. Shouting at EVERYONE for EVERYTHING. Illegally arresting people shouting "STOP RESISTING" as the person is contorted and unable to move. While raining punches and knees down on men, women, children (especially black children) who are face down on the ground. All while communicating like impatient children. Expecting the public to bow to them without question. It's all so old and ubiquitous.
There are thousands of these videos at this point. They've been terrors for long before we all had cameras. Now we just see it.
Just remember, if you have a problem and call the police, now you have two problems.
Fuck the police. ACAB. etc.
Don’t call the cops for mental health emergencies. They end in death or slightly better (shot and charged).
It's almost as if a militarized police force trained to shoot first and shoot to kill shouldn't be in charge of wellness checks, mental health emergencies, or even nonviolent offenses.
In fact, we could use some of the budget assigned to police and use it to train non-violent emergency response teams, since the police won't be doing that work anymore.
If only we had a catchy slogan for it.
I would prefer the Police actually had military training. The military actually teaches de-escalation.
Edit, source: https://www.npr.org/2016/12/08/504718239/military-trained-police-may-be-slower-to-shoot-but-that-got-this-vet-fired
https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/police-officer-wins-settlement-city-fired-him
shoot to kill
Just to be clear, if you are shooting someone you are always "shooting to kill". You never so much as point a firearm at someone unless you are ready to end their life. If someone happens to be incapacitated but survive being shot then that is a happy accident but it should never be the expected outcome.
ACAB of course and I agree with everything else you said. I just get really tired of the "why didn't they shoot the in the leg or hand" comments. Real life isn't an action movie. That isn't how things work. If you are shooting someone you are aiming center of mass so you have the best chance of hitting despite the high stress scenario which it will be if you're not a sociopath. And you keep pulling the trigger until they drop because gunshot wounds will rarely drop someone in one hit. Even of it winds up being a lethal wound it can take a while to kill or even be debilitating to someone who is almost certainly running on adrenaline; until then all you've done is piss them off and make yourself a threat. In high stress situations people are known to be able to sustain fatal gunshot wounds and not even realize that they've been shot until the adrenaline starts wearing off.
In this case, it was the person experiencing the mental health emergency who called the cops. Based on their repeated actions with the pair of scissors, it looks like suicide by cop, which is something police need to be trained to predict and prevent.
So... what are people supposed to do instead?
The most important part of becoming a cop is apparently lacking empathy.
The guy who created Killology, and anyone else who has created training which teaches cops that everyone else is a dangerous enemy, should be prosecuted for conspiracy to commit murder (or similar) every time a cop who received their training kills someone.
I'm not making an account to see a damned video. I'll just assume the cop is a deranged asshole.
Conservatives should not be permitted to hold positions of authority. They lack empathy, which makes it nearly impossible for them to de-escalate or treat mental health crises appropriately.
They lack empathy and show signs of psychopathy, which is even worse
Police are not therapists and psychologists.
police, however, are the rapists and psycho.
And murderers.
But therapists and psychologists won't come to your house in a mental health emergency with someone acting out violently for free, so people end up calling the cops out of desperation. One of many reasons we need a robust public healthcare system.
We also need people trained to de-escalate these crises on the public payroll, available for emergencies 24/7. And boy did the "defund the police" slogan not help with that.
You don't need to be a therapist or psychologist to not shoot someone having a mental health crisis
Judge: When she yelled out please don't shoot, why did you shoot?
Officer: What I thought she said was "Please, shoot! He has an AK hidden underneath his shorts! Also they identify as a black FTM gay atheist!"
Judge: Understandable, I think I can hear that as well upon reviewing the footage again, case dismissed!
/S
I feel for the family, mental health issues are not an easy thing to handle even when being treated. My grandmother had issues later in life including dementia and a few times we had to make sure to keep sharp objects out of the picture. It's not easy. I hope that this helps improve things for others down the line in some way, improved police training, improved awareness, something.
The lack of justice system reform is the 1% telling us the George floydd protests didn't go far enough. So go further i guess.
Maybe we're doing this all wrong. Maybe we need to use reverse-psychology on these simple-minded cops and start begging them to murder our loved ones when they're having mental health crises.
"Oh powerful warrior cop, please bless me with relief from paying monthly tribute to my landed lord. My life is yours to take."
Yeah, that's just one of many horrible facets to consider when considering mental illness. I am so sad for their family. Those high pressure situations like that can be so dangerous. I just hate all that for him and for them.
I mean, realistically, the police are trained in combat enough to disarm a mentally ill civilian with a pair of scissors without having to resort to murdering him.
May God have mercy on us all.